Best Car Boot, Charity Shop and Jumble Sale Bargains - New Thread 4/10/09

Mariel

I got a brand new Dorothy Perkins soft leather obi belt for £1 in a charity shop. I've seen one almost the same from the Celtic Sheepskin Company for £24. I bought it to make some kind of hip belt/bag out of but not too sure now, it's too nice.

emerald_starcat

Well I had a blissful morning at the regular local saturday car boot (was the first of the season this year).

I managed to pick up loads of stuff, my best bargain was a pair of Roxy Quiksilver black furry moon boots for £2. I have been after a pair for ages! Love them!

Ooooohh, tesco car boot in the morning - hope I can sleep ok as am excited, got so many bargains last year there (it is only on easter sunday.)

Claire_Bear

Popped into our local flea market today, had about ten minutes before I had to be at work so didn't get as much of a rummage as I would have liked. I love the flea market, eveything is 50p per item or 6 for £1, and there's absolutely tons of glassware - plates, glasses, ornaments, vases, bowls etc as well as some odd bits and bobs and pictures. The man running the majority of stalls annoys me though, he proper hassles you! Had a quick look around, picked one thing up and he went 'y'alright love?' which was fair enough, had another look around and he said the same, on the third time walking past him he goes 'I've got a carrier ready for you here love', I was like 'just leave me alone and let me browse in peace! Anyway.... here's what I got

A small light blue trinket box thing with a purple flower design on top, it's really small and pretty but I have no idea what I'm going to use it for! It looks like it should go on a dressing table but I don't have one (yet)
A large clear glass bowl, at first I thought it was a mixing bowl for the kitchen but now I've looked closer I think it's a decorative bowl so might put glass pebbles and floating candles in it instead.
A small white roasting dish
A small clear decorative bowl with an engraved swirly flower pattern
A chunky square glass candle holder.
A plain white photo frame, was thinking about gluing clear glass pebbles around it like this http://www.rufflesandstuff.com/2009/12/easy-fancy-pants-frames.html

flipper_2010

emerald_starcat wrote: »

Ooooohh, tesco car boot in the morning - hope I can sleep ok as am excited, got so many bargains last year there (it is only on easter sunday.)

Do they have them everywhere? Or are you in Hastings?

emerald_starcat

flipper_2010 wrote: »

Do they have them everywhere? Or are you in Hastings?

I'm in Boston, Lincs - think it's a local thing!

Got loads of bargains today there - made sure I went to bed at 9pm last night ready to get up at 5:30am this morning!

I managed to get:

Faux leather cube boxes x 2 for £4
Faux leather lamp - 50p
Fantasy PVC transmuter boots - £5
Real leather black DP's boots - £1
Bench Jacket - £1
DP's skinny jeans - £1.50
Next jeans - £1
D&G jeans - £1
Adidas hoodie - £1
Darkside skinny emo jeans - £1.50
Grey skinny leopard print jeans - 50p
Primark leather gladiator sandals(brand new with £10 label) - £2.50
King size embroidered bedding set - £5

So really pleased with my bargains - I now have the rest of the day to finish making my bridesmaid dress for my sister's wedding next week!

verynewmoneysaver

I got a lovely rasberry coloured linen per una jacket in charity shop yesterday for £5.95. It's a little big but I don't care.

pinkclanger

Hello there all,
hope everyone had a good morning at the boot sales, it was a bit breezy and started to rain at the one i went to but i did manage to get a few bits...

red herring jeans £1
black skinny jeans (never heard of the make) £1
dark blue skinny jeans ( " ) 50p
brand new pair of brown ugg type boots £3
cute green/white summer pj's 50p
clip in dreamgirl hair extensions £2.50
5 x elle macphearson new body/bath stuff £2 the lot

and my best bargin...
4 x Alpha-H sealed mask, cleanser, rejuvenating cream & liquid gold £2...have seen this make on the shopping channel and googled it and the rrp was £97 so well chuffed i was!

Hopefully the weather will be good tomoro so i can venture to another one, not really sure if there are any on in my area...does anyone live in suffolk/norfolk?
xxxxx

rugbybabe77

Enjoyed this morning's bootsale. Not had much luck the last 2 weeks since it opened. Today was very busy with buyers (guess they've got nowhere else open) but quite a lot of different sellers.

Bought something I've been thinking about making the 100mile round trip to Ikea for ....the Trofast storage system for £5. Retails at £74 with the boxes, will need to buy them separately which will be about £20 but perfect for me!!!

Also bought DD 3 excellent condtion My little pony's, a dora figure, and 3 books all for £2.

Might go for a wander round the BH monday one tomorrow, depending on what time I get up as need to be back for family visiting!

Jorsha

Wow, what a come back into car booting - I had itchy feet after all those months of not rummaging around in people's second-hand wares and boy I'm glad I'm back doing it again!
I've been to two car boots this weekend, one yesterday and one today.
Unfortunately, the weather wasn't great for either of them but that didnt stop some sellers coming, braving the harsh winds etc. Sunday's car boot was significantly smaller though.
Sunday
A really nice oriental design umbrella/parasol - this could be used as a sun shade, it's made out of some sort of papery type of material and it has a really nice pattern on it! If I had the space, I would put it up indoors with the pattern on show, but my small 2 bed house doesn't have the facilities to accommodate it in its' larger state so I'll have to leave it in a cupboard for now. Paid the princely sum of £2!
I also got a lovely wooden carving of several elephants, which will look great on a shelf on display, also £2.

Monday
Many more good buys were on offer today, in fact, off the first stall I got a lovely pair of african drums, the furry type, these will also look great on display somewhere (not as big as the umbrella ) a pair of them for £6
2 Vintage board games, I use the covers for scrapbooks etc as I love the old designs on them - a bit less pricey than buying off ebay as well! two for £1.50
Game boy advance with tv tuner (now irrelevant, unfortunately, thanks to the digital switchover) and three games. £5
My favourite bargain of the day has to be, a minature piano (17 keys) in a bright red paint, I would hazard a guess at it being quite old (40, 50 years) because of the design on the box. Unfortunately, I can't find anything about the company that made it but this will take pride of place on a table in the lounge, where I can have a quick mash about whenever I want to. I snapped it up at £3!


I'm happy to hear about everyone else's bargains and I hope you enjoy the new(ish) car boot season as much as I have!

jtz

unfortunately, the car boot I planned to go to today was 'closed due to the weather':( Its sunny and shining here!!!!:mad:
hopefully I can go on the weekend though....looking forward to reading everyone's finds;)